American Murder Stories

On June 10th, 1912, the brutally murdered bodies of 8 people, 2 adults and 6 children,  were found inside a family home in Iowa. To this day it remains a mystery as to who committed this murder. The house was occupied by the Moore family.

The Moore family was headed by local businessman, Josiah B. Moore. He was married to Sarah Moore and had 4 children. Herman, Mary, Arthur and Paul. In 1903 Josiah would move his family into a 3 bedroom home on 2nd street in Villisca, Iowa not too far from Des Moines.

Unfortunately despite all the potential leads it never got resolved. To this day no one has ever been convicted for the crime.

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The Villisca Axe Murders | Iowa Cold Cases

Villisca Axe Murders, The 1912 Massacre That Left 8 Dead (allthatsinteresting.com)

The Town History of Villisca, Iowa (villiscaiowa.com)

The Ax Murderer Who Got Away | History| Smithsonian Magazine

Unsolved Villisca Axe Murders of 1912 - Historic Mysteries

Serial Suspects: Who Committed the Villisca Axe Murders? (the-line-up.com)

The Time a Ghost Hunter Stabbed Himself at My Axe Murder Museum (vice.com)

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On July 22nd, 2015, brothers Michael 16 and Robert Bever 18, brutally murdered 5 members of their family, attempted to murder one more and luckily due to a lack of time were not able to murder the youngest family member.

Michael and Robert were the sons of 52 year old David and 44 year old April. They also had 5 siblings, 13 year old Crystal, 12 year old Daniel, 10 year old Christopher, 5 year old Victoria and 2 year old Autumn. Crystal and Autumn survived the attack.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Arrow_killings

Now tv Documentary – Killer Sibling – S1 Ep 4 Bevers.

https://www.newson6.com/story/5e35b4d0777a5668671be1ab/evidence-released-in-michael-bever-murder-trial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O_MbEv-wWg

https://www.oxygen.com/killer-siblings/crime-news/robert-michael-bevers-stab-family-broken-arrow-crystal

https://www.newson6.com/story/5e35c21d2f69d76f620114cf/robert-bever-tries-to-attack-prison-staff-with-sharpened-instrument-report-states

https://www.krmg.com/news/local/warning-graphic-details-from-testimony-bever-brothers-hearing/Y4cEjYSc5Kz5rDvm6yHeXN/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TR6dKg5URw

https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/notes-from-the-courtroom-as-robert-bever-takes-stand-in-brothers-murder-trial#:~:text=TULSA%20%2D%2D%20Robert%20Bever%20took,has%20since%20been%20diagnosed%20with.

https://ktul.com/news/local/robert-bever-sobs-in-brothers-murder-trial-i-dont-know-what-i-was-thinking

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On July 13th, 1966, mass murderer known as Richard Speck would enter the home of a group of nurses in a South Chicago townhouse.

He took all the nurses as hostages and would murder all but one. They were Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo, and Valentina Pasion and survivor Corazon Amurao.

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John Douglas & Mark Olshaker – Mindhunter – Inside the FBI Elite Serial Crime Unit.

Ryan Green – The Townhouse Massacre

The Killer Book of True Crime – Tom Philbin & Michael Philbin

Interview with John Douglas – Last Podcast on the Left

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Speck

https://allthatsinteresting.com/richard-speck

https://www.cga.ct.gov/PS97/rpt/olr/htm/97-R-0242.htm

https://www.chicagohistory.org/first-mass-murderer-richard-speck/

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/speck-richard.htm

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On December 6th, 2009 the body of a young woman was found in the basement of her own home. Donna Ellen Jones wanted to find love, unfortunately she met Mark Peter Hutt. Hutt would spend 4 years abusing Donna, which resulted in her death.

This would become one of the worse cases of domestic abuse where Donna was subjected to verbal abuse, psychological abuse and financial abuse from her husband. Donna was only 33 years old when she was killed.

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Sources: 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/murder-victim-s-death-haunts-family-friends-1.1354609

https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hutt-mark.htm

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/donna-jones-murder-trial-mark-hutt-allegedly-doused-wife-with-boiling-water 

https://ottawasun.com/2013/06/07/monster-mark-slowly-killed-donna-jones

https://torontosun.com/2013/06/07/evil-mark-hutt-found-guilty-of-murdering-wife-with-boiling-water

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/first-responders-describe-crime-scene-during-hutt-trial-1.1302713

https://ottawasun.com/2013/05/21/my-wifes-dead-alleged-killers-frantic-911-call

Domestic Violence Links: 

https://canadianwomen.org/blog/signs-of-emotional-abuse/

https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/

https://safeandtogetherinstitute.com/international-domestic-violence-resources/

https://globalrightsforwomen.org/work-with-us/

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Between 1979 and 1981 a serial killer David Joseph Carpenter, would murder, rape, kidnap and rob multiple people. While he was apprehended in May of 1981, this was not the first time he had a brush with the law.

While the exact figure of how many he murdered is unknown, it is said to be between 7 and 11. He was found guilty and sent to San Quentin Prison. As of today, David Carpenter sits on death row since being sentenced to death in 1984. He is 94 years old.

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Sources:

The Sleeping Lady: The Trailside Murders Above the Golden Gate by Robert Graysmith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvCvNv72eB4

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/true-crime-in-the-outdoors/david-carpenter

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/David_Carpenter

https://listverse.com/2019/08/06/10-awful-facts-about-the-trailside-killer/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/david-carpenter

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/David_Carpenter

https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/carpenter-david-joseph.htm

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/very-scary-people-id-who-alleged-victims-david-carpenter

https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/predators/david_carpenter/10.html

https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/predators/david_carpenter/8.html

https://www.grunge.com/236497/the-truth-about-the-real-life-

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Pedro Rodrigues Filho has been dubbed the real life Dexter. Like that of Dexter, Filho would target men who were criminals. Filho is thought to have killed over 100 people, some while in prison.

Filho would be released and try and educate young men to understand that crime does not pay.

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Sources:

Psycho.com: serial killers on the internet: True stories of psychopaths who became online sensations (Dark Webs True Crime) by Eileen Ormsby

Serial Killers Encyclopedia: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers from A to Z

By RJ Parker

https://www.grunge.com/236497/the-truth-about-the-real-life-dexter-killer/

https://forensicyard.com/pedro-rodrigues-filho-brazilian-serial-killer-who-killed-murderers/ 

https://sites.google.com/site/pedrorodriguezfilho/victims 

https://cvltnation.com/serial-killer-vs-criminals-the-real-life-dexter-murderer-pedro-rodrigues-filho/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmCdGzGnU6s&t=11s 

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Between 1972 and 1990 a serial killer, Arthur Shawcross, also known as the Genesee River Killer, the monster of the rivers and the Rochester strangler murdered 13 people, 2 of whom were children.

Despite spending time in prison for the murder of Karen Hill, he would be released, to kill again.

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Sources:

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/arthur-shawcross

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/shawcross-arthur.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x41_AgL2lec

Book – Interview with Serial Killers by Christopher Berry-Dee

Interview with a Serial Killer -  Netflix 

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Between December of 1977 and January 1978, 6 people were brutally murdered. Ambrose Griffin, 51, 22 year old Teresa Wallin who was 3 months pregnant, 38 year old Evelyn Miroth and her son 6 year old Jason, her 22 month old nephew David and her friend 51 year old Daniel Meredith.

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Sources:

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/richard-trenton-chase/

https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/11279433

https://www.aafp.org/afp/2014/1201/p775.html

https://sacramento.newsreview.com/2021/08/13/revisiting-the-vampire-of-sacramento/ 

https://www.thehealthboard.com/what-is-renfields-syndrome.htm

Sky True Crime: World's Worst Serial Killers - Richard Chase

Serial Killers: True Stories of the World’s Worst Murderers - Al Cimino p139-148

The Vampire of Sacramento: The True Story of Richard Chase The Blood-Thirsty Cannibal by Genoveva Ortiz & True Crime Seven 

Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

By Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman - Chapter 1 

A Thirst for Blood: The True Story of California's Vampire Killer by Ray Biondi and Walt Hecox

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On the 1st of March, 1983 the small town of McCarthy, Alaska would never be the same again. Out of it’s 22 residents, 6 would be brutally murdered. Maxine Edwards, Harley King, Les and Flo Hegland, and Tim and Amy Nash, they would all meet their fate at the hands of neighbour, Louis D Hastings.

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Sources:

Frozen Terror - Ice Cold Killers- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfCVeB226kM

https://www.travelalaska.com/Destinations/Communities/Kennicott-McCarthy.aspx

https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hastings-louis.htm

https://www.nps.gov/wrst/learn/historyculture/kennecott-mines-national-historic-landmark.htm

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/03/03/Survivor-describes-random-shootings-that-killed-six/9561415515600/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trans-Alaska-Pipeline

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/let-these-photos-take-you-alaskas-abandoned-mining-towns-180975933/

https://casetext.com/case/hastings-v-state-55

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Between 1969 and 1980 Pedro Lopez would terrorise the young girls of Columbia, Peru and Ecuador. It is said that he raped and murdered up to 450 girls. In 1998 he was released from prison and to this day no-one knows where he is.

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Sources:

Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murders - By Chris McNab

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/pedro-alonso-lopez

https://www.alittlebithuman.com/the-horrifying-story-of-pedro-lopez-south-americas-missing-serial-killer/

https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lopez-pedro.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_RVW0QN1f8

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Inside+the+mind+of+serial+killer+Pedro+Alonzo%3B+Monster+of+Andes...-a070240981

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